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RECENT ~CPL SYSTEM MODIFICATIONS
19 Dece~ber, 1974
BCPl
'all the goodies described below. There may be some pr'oblems with
new things, but old things should be to~al'ly unaffected.
BUG FIXES .
The "-5" bug (error -5 issued from the compiler) was fixed, along
wi th some other pet ty annoyances. in September. '
"frame space overflow" will occur much less frequently now with
programs which declare a lot of unused symbols. due to directory
condensation during the last pass.
Warning: A + or - may not directly follow a . e~cept in a
table. This prevents 5-2 from evaluating to a single
entry, 3 , within a t ab~Jt::' :,detn';i:rr:.~ti 0'0. ...: l:t.:iti:s